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Geodesic manifold


In mathematics, a complete manifold (or geodesically complete manifold) is a (pseudo-) Riemannian manifold for which every maximal (inextendible) geodesic is defined on .

All compact Riemannian manifolds and all homogeneous manifolds are geodesically complete.

Euclidean space , the spheres and the tori (with their natural Riemannian metrics) are all complete manifolds.


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